Wombles of Wimbledon!

[mariness]

Summers in Italy had one serious disadvantage: no books, or, I should say, almost no books. I had my own two little shelves of books I reread over and over and over, and then, over (why I can still quote On the Banks of Plum Creek almost word for word today), and I had whatever book arrived from my mother's weekly American book club, which varied

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[fbhjr]

Yay Bears!

[mariness]

Yay!

[selidor]

WOMBLES!
Excellent.
(Now I'm going to have the song stuck in my head again. It's like a return to being eight).

[mariness]

Part of the reason I wanted to do the reread already is that once it's done, I'm hoping the song will leave my head. I mean, I love it, but, enough already :)

[tingirl]

Someone else knows the pain of Bruno and Sylvie! I'm not alone *sobs*
(It was summers at my Dad's country-sitting house, for me. And I read that in lieu of the Silmarillion, which...says how I felt about the Silmarillion, I suppose. Theological arguments ahoy!)
Never heard of the Famous Five or the Wombles, for that matter, but books of talking bears seem an obvious treasure.

[mariness]

I loved the Silmarillion, but it's obviously not to everyone's taste and I can understand why people hate it/couldn't finish it. So no argument from me on that

[vovat]

I also read the Sylvie and Bruno books. Took me a while, but they did have their moments. They were just buried in a lot of annoying baby-talk and plots that didn't go anywhere. I wrote a little about them here.